Yair Rosenberg, writing for The Atlantic (behind paywall) and quoted at length by John Sexton at the HotAir site, observes how misleading conclusions made from a bunch of Tweets can be.
According to the Pew Research Center, only 23 percent of U.S. adults use Twitter, and of those users, “the most active 25% … produced 97% of all tweets.” In other words, nearly all tweets come from less than 6 percent of American adults. This is not a remotely good representation of public opinion, let alone newsworthiness, and treating it as such will inevitably result in wrong conclusions.
Plus Instapundit Glenn Reynolds opines about Twitter.
The best thing to do with Twitter is to ignore it, and certainly not to treat it as anything connected with how most people think or feel. Think of it rather as a window into the ugly souls and scanty intellects of our chattering class.
In other words, Twitter is an echo chamber bubble and the “woke” inside the bubble are nonstop talking to themselves while the rest of us - somewhere between 77-94% - go on about our business largely oblivious to the “Twitterverse” and those who infest it.
